We’ve got a lot of big news for Linux users this week! We’ve got everything from marketshare growth to the latest updates for your favorite distros. Desktop Linux hits 4% market share! That’s the highest ever by the way. Linux From Scratch just released a new version for those of you who dream of building your own OS. Fedora is considering dropping XOrg entirely on Fedora 41 Workstation. Arch Linux users are getting a pretty big update to their package manager, Pacman. Plus we are so close to 30,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, if you enjoy this show and aren’t subscribe to my channel then I’d appreciate it if you help me reach that milestone. That would be awesome. Now let’s jump into This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:08 I’m going to SCALE – [link]
03:31 4% Marketshare for Linux on StatCounter! – [link]
06:28 Nintendo says Game Over to Yuzu Emulator with $2.4 Million lawsuit – [link]
11:40 Open Collective Foundation is shutting down – [OCF, OSC comment]
15:04 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]
16:26 Fedora Project Considering Dropping XOrg from Workstation – [link]
20:56 Flock to Fedora Conference – [link]
23:28 HDMI Forum ‘blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers’ – [link]
24:37 Zorin OS 17.1 Released – [link]
26:37 OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released – [link]
28:40 Arch Linux’s Pacman 6.1 Released – [link]
30:10 Linux From Scratch 12.1 Released – [link]
33:34 Outro
Thanks for this, @MichaelTunnell - always excited to hear of a new LFS release. I’ve built it a few times over the years, but always get stuck at a very late manual network configuration stage. I tried to drum-up support in this community a long while ago to collaborate on some builds but the enthusiasm wasn’t there.
Currently I’m focusing on testing and development tools and looking for my next contract. When I have a bit more pocket money and time, I’m likely to give LFS another shot, main aim being to reach BLFS this time too!
As for GNU Image Manipulation Package and Gtk2; Gtk3 in the Gnome 3 release, I wonder if they’re planning G.I.M.P. 4 already, using Gtk4?
Also, in using Fedora 40 KDE spin (KDE 6, Wayland only), the only hitch I’ve encountered is my usual onscreen keyboard (Onboard) isn’t working. I haven’t scouted for an alternative yet, but I’m sure I’ll find one. This is really important because I do need multi-language and RTL support, fairly regularly
I think it’s just way too much even in a group effort lol I did it once and thats enough forever imo lol
They have been working on GIMP 3.0 for at least a few years now to go from GTK2 to GTK3. GTK4 has been released before they started the move to GTK3 I think. They claimed the port to GTK3 was done over a year ago on Mastodon so who knows when we will get the actual release but I am very confident that GIMP with GTK4 either is VERY far away or not even planned with a potential skip to GTK5. GIMP is so far behind the industry I am not sure why it still exists honestly. GIMP 2.x was first released in 2004 . . . it’s been this main branch for 20 years now. Even when GIMP 3 comes out, it will be a while before it goes to GTK4 or anything later.
I think the maliit-keyboard works on KDE under Wayland, give that a shot
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